Michael Grant is a Private Investigator with an ex-cop, secret black-ops past who takes on two run-of-the-mill missing persons investigations in Dallas only to find himself face to face with his and his client's ghosts in an urban jungle of lost love, sexual abuse, torture, rape, murder and revenge that follows him to the tropical Caribbean where these forces come together under the Jamaica Moon.
Robert Sadler, private investigator and security consultant, Vietnam veteran and former Dallas cop, is a novelist-essayist-poet-artist and photographer. As a cop he played an instrumental roll in the capture of a Dallas serial rapist who was responsible for more than seventy offenses. As Division Crime Analyst, it was Robert's initial analysis of the crime reports that led to a three-year, dogged pursuit of the man the newspapers called "The Friendly Burglar Rapist." Along with his partner, Thomas H. Covington, Jr., the two men tracked thousands of leads and pursued innovative avenues to, in the end, predict where the FBR would strike next. When Robert and Tom finally convinced enough police department brass of the value of their case knowledge, a tactical team was directed to stakeout the specific area their system predicted. A couple of nights later the FBR was captured. As a Private Investigator, Robert has conducted investigations for a diverse group of clients from attorneys, individuals and mom-and-pop businesses to multinational corporations.
As an artist and photographer Robert's works have been shown and sold across the country. Having written over 3600 poems, his award-winning poetry has been published in Listening to the Birth of Crystals, an international poetry anthology edited and published in England, and in The Raintown Review, [Editor: Pulitzer Prize Nominated Poet, Harvey Stanbrough]. Robert's English translation of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer's Spanish poem, "Volverán Las Oscuras Golondrinas", appeared in the University of Texas at Dallas' Sojourn - a journal of the arts Vol. 19 and his poem, GG's Quilt was recently published in the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's special "Quilt" issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities.
As a novelist, Robert has now written six novels. He is writing his seventh in the series of novels that are subtitled: "from the Black Book Investigations of Michael Grant & Associates." Jamaica Moon was followed in publication by Judas Oracle in December 2009. His third book in the series And... Never Again was released in November 2010 his fourth book, Innocent And Guilty, debuted November 5, 2011. Next in the series is Cry... Walk, Run! scheduled for publication in 2012. Robert is also working on a true-crime novel based on the infamous Friendly Burglar Rapist case mentioned above.
An accomplished speaker, Robert has made presentations and conducted seminars across the country dealing with topics such as, asset protection, security and corporate investigations, in particular Mortgage Fraud, as well as sales and sales techniques.
Robert is a Rotary past-president and Paul Harris Fellow. He was recognized in a D MAGAZINE article (May 1986) as one of Dallas' top-ten Private Investigators.
